Pearls of Wisdom

‘The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them…a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create – so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.’

     

Thank you Pearl S. Buck and Happy National Writing Month to you all.

   

xoxox

Leasa

November is National Novel Writing Month!

Okay, two posts in one day! In keeping with my previous post, I am taking action and have signed up to write a novel next month on the National Novel Writing Month website. Yes, I commit to answer to an external force - the National Novel Writing Month family or 'NaNoWriMo' -  everyday for a month starting November 1st!

Check out the website. It's really fun. And then sign up to write a novel next month at:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I have friends in Austin, Paris and Baltimore who have signed on to write a novel in November. Yippee, my own little writing group! Won't you join us? I will tell you what I will be working on in a future post. Curious, are you?

xoxox
Leasa